Amazon Air Jet crushes Texas, with three dead on board

An Atlas Air Boeing 767 freighter cargo plane crashed on Saturday afternoon in a bay near Anahuac, Texas, with three people on board, according to numerous media reports and the Federal Aviation Administration. The theft, which had been entrusted to freight transport for Amazon Air (formerly Prime Air), collapsed while he was traveling from Houston to Houston. It is presumed that the accident killed everyone on board.

Flight 3591 lost radio communication with air traffic controllers approximately 30 miles southeast of Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport, where it was scheduled to land. KPRC-TV reported that the preliminary indication is that the plane fell around 12:40. local time, to which the FAA issued a warning alert and civilians began to report the crash to the authorities.

According to CNBC, a video taken at the scene of the accident in Trinity Bay appears to show wrecks with part of the Amazon logo floating in the water, along with the responses of the forces of the United States. order reporting "items such as sheets, women's clothing and cardboard boxes in the bay."

Brian Hawthorne, Sheriff of Chambers County, told reporters that it was very unlikely that anyone could have survived the impact. The area where it has fallen is swampy, he added, which will complicate relief efforts.

"The problem we are going to have, and that everyone is going to have in this recovery process, is that the water is going about five feet deep to zero," Hawthorne said, according to KPRC. "And that zero feet deep is nothing but marsh mud."

"We could not find any survivors or remains," the sheriff added. "I would say that most of the aircraft that I could actually see visually is probably no bigger than about 50 feet."

"We can confirm that there were three people on board the plane. These people and their family members are our top priority right now, "Atlas Air told ABC 13 in a statement. Atlas Air cooperates fully with FAA and NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board]. We will update the additional information available. "

[CNBC/KPRC-TV/ABC 13]

Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Flight 3591 as being a Boeing 737, rather than a Boeing 767. We regret the error.